The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-12-21
SOUTH CAROLINA BUDS.
Senator Buffers Daughters Who VIII be in
Washington Society this Winter.

Senator Buffers Daughters Who VIII be in
Washington Society this Winter.
4 Washington correspondent OF the
New York World gives a long List, illus
trsted with portraits, Of the tbuds" who
will enter Washington society this wiz
ter. He says:
Senator Butler, Of South Carolina, is
one Of the most courtly and handsome
men in the United States Senate, and his
daughters will be among the brightest OF
the rosebuds Of the capital this winter.
Miss Marie Butler had just taste of
Washington society last season, and Miss
Elise will make her first appearance on
New Years. They both seem very
pretty. Miss Marie is very stylish and
highly accomplished. Shespeaks French
fuently, and, Like her sister Elise, is
very fond of horseback riding. The
picture I give you of her is an equestrian
one and it is taken from an instantane-
ous photograph OF her seated on her
fs7orite horse, Frisette, while standing
in one Of the roads of the family estate,
East Hill, near Edgefeld, s. G.
Ny picture Of Elise, who is little bit
more OF rosebud than Marie, was taken
at the same time, and it represents her
in riding costume, but does not show
forth the full beatty Of her features.
Miss Elise Butler is beautiful girl. She
is CT medium height, well forne3, and
her large blue eyes look out over fair
cheeks, rosy with color. Like her sister
Marie, she is a good French scholar, and
she viii be, as Marie was last winter,
very popular With the diplomats. She
is fond Of reading, and is an accomplish.
ed talker. The Washington home Of
the Buffers is in the most fashionable
quarter OF the city. 1t is within stones
throw Of the British legation, not far
from Blaine's house facing Dupont Cir
Gle, and just around the corner from
where Secretary Manning lived last win
ter and where the Count Mithewiez
lives now. It is red pressed brick.
bear;ng the number 1,751 P street, and
is very comfortably furnished. Mrs.
Butler comes of one of the best families
of the Palmetto State, and as for the
Senator, his ancestors were the Dukes Of
Ormand, one of whom was lieutenant
general Of the Royal troops during the
irish insurrection Of l64l, and who was
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland In 1914. He
stuck to the Grown when Cromwell
seized the Government. He proclaimed
Charles II in Ireland and made an un-
successful attempt to capture Dublin In
1649. Cromwell, however, drove him
out OF Ireland during the following year,
and Charles II made hin duke when
he came into power.
The mans name was James Butler
Ormand, and one of his descendants,
Pierce Butler. who was third son Of
Sir Richard Butler, Of Ireland, came to
this country as g major in the British
army. He resigned, however, before the
Revolution and settled in Charleston,
and il is from him, think, that the
present Butler family originates. He
was member OF the first United States
Senate, and one of his sons married Miss
Fanny Kemble, the actress. The pattern
al grandfather Of the Misses Butler was
in Congress, one of their granduncles
was an officer in the American army and
was killed in the Mexican war, and
another granduncle was the United
States Senator in defence of whom
Preston S. Brooks, q relative, assaulted
Charles Sumter, inasmuch as Senator
Butler was not at Washington at the
tine Summers attack upon him IN the
Senate was made. Senator Buffers
mother was Perry, and she was the
Youngest sister of Commodore Oliver e.
Perry, the hero of the battle Of Lake
Erie.